BGSP Annual Cape Conference: Controversies in Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Issues

July 8, 2014 - PRLog -- Controversies in Psychoanalysis:

Contemporary Issues

August 4th - 7th

Wellfleet Elementary School, Wellfleet, MA

Conference meets 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM each day
Registration opens at 8:30 AM

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Schedule

Monday, August 4th  – Who’s in the room and how?

Two person versus one person psychology, and now a third?  Use and abuse of the countertransference, what do we mean by intersubjective, the “field”?
Case presentations and discussion
Objectives:

Compare and contrast two person and one person psychology.
Assess what is meant by abuse of countertransference.
Define what is meant by "intersubjective" and the "field."

Tuesday, August 5th  – What drives us?

Contemporary motivation theory, does it exist? What comes from within, from without, and a combination of the two? Is the death drive dead?
Case presentations and discussion
Objectives:

Define contemporary motivation theory.
Discuss the controversy of motivation theory.
Give examples from the case presentation of what comes from within and what comes from without.

Wednesday, August 6th  – Neosexualities: Does Anything Go?

How do current psychoanalysts think about homosexuality, “transgressive sexualities”, transgender identities? What’s “perversion”, “pathological”, neosexuality”?
Objectives:

Discuss how current psychoanalysts think about homosexuality.
Discuss how current psychoanalysts think about transgressive sexualities and transgender identities.
Discuss what is meant by perversion and pathological neosexuality.

Thursday, August 7th  – Are we dead or alive?

Why the Need to Declare Psychoanalysis Dead? Psychoanalysis itself as controversial. What’s new? Where are we going?
Objectives:

Discuss psychoanalysis as a controversial issue.
Discuss new concepts in the field of psychoanalysis.
Discuss the possible future of psychoanalysis.